ogbuefi677:
Wrong decision.
There are thousands of appropriately qualified jobless graduates who can be mobilized with the right incentives and trained on d job right away.
Retirees are already elderly and statistics on ground shows d virus is more deadly in the elderly and these ppl might not withstand d sudden stress.
Just flash a lot of cash,like 70k per week with free feeding and accomodation, you'll have enuf volunteers.

They won't do that! The crop of leaders we have in Nigeria are bunch of wicked souls who are not learned as they claim. They would rather pay #10,000 for a months job

helinues:
Can't they recruit out of the rejected past applicants?

Why do we always like to think backward in this country?

They are more experienced.
Nothing backward here

StreetFight:
You will wail for long. Should we have voted for the drunk ineffectual buffoon or the Cameroonian bisexual called Atikuchukwu? We disgraced you in 2015, we humiliated you in 2019, come 2023, we shall completely annihilate you ingrates.

Kindly use your common sense you this broom carrier! Where did I mention your daft certificate forger?
#LikeLeaderLikeFollower

abnot:
I wont advice any of them to return. During the ebola outbreak in 2014 non of the NCDC staff were paid. They were promised to be paid but as NCDC had no money as at then. They also refused to disengage the workers during the ebola crisis. Consequently, the pioneer members of staff worked for free for up to one year and were never paid. Isaac Adewole (HMH) and Chikwe (MD/DG NCDC) were appointed later on but refused to resolve the matter of payment. MOst of these pioneer staff were diasporas who had returned to nigeria to build the agency. Most of them have since returned to their base. I know one of them who returned to Denmark to practice medicine. I know another who returned to USA. Her case was even more pathetic as she had to stand at wuse market to sell her children's clothing to be able to raise money to buy a flight ticket to USa (she had dual citizenship Nigeria/USA) . She is now gainfully employed at the US Public Health Service.
They are now looking for people to use again .

Wonderful! And she did not make it news then?
90% of ppl that return from abroad to 'build ' Naija end up regretting their decisions. I feel pity for her. Chai! Degenerated to selling her kids cloths to fly back? While senators are sharing money and cars steady? She should not have kept shut. Tweet it! Use social media , use influencers! If the whole Naija is gagged, use foreign ones, copy WHO, world bank, Amnesty intl, just make noise!

When you've refused to employ adequate health workers in such agencies, appointing only who-know-who. There has never been adequate staff in any of the government-owned health institutions.

No be only from retirement!

Nigerians will learn a bitter lesson from their decisions of choosing inept leaders due to tribal/religious sentiments!

Lostz:
when they are either underpaid or paid late

FG workers are usually well-paid na! It's not everything that is so bad na.

The rumors could be true, this niggar don run commot oh. Leaving us to die here. But God will protect his people.

Stupid Ngige said something months ago.

Who Do Dis For Buhari

Have they paid them their pension and gratuities? Use and dump is their stock in trade. Let them mobilize their children to fight the pandemic joor

We don't need any wisdom to tell us that we have a dummy President.

After u watch President Trump and Kenya President... U will know why the economy has been nosediving earlier.

The unelected President in the person of Abba kyari is sick...expect more politicking.

ogbuefi677:
Wrong decision.
There are thousands of appropriately qualified jobless graduates who can be mobilized with the right incentives and trained on d job right away.
Retirees are already elderly and statistics on ground shows d virus is more deadly in the elderly and these ppl might not withstand d sudden stress.
Just flash a lot of cash,like 70k per week with free feeding and accomodation, you'll have enuf volunteers.

Yes you are right but calling youths together to start training will take a long process cos there will be screening upon screening which will take time and will also mean gathering large crowd together. That alone is not safe at all. Calling retired health workers back is the best solution because they have the experience and knowledge of the process.

abnot:


Most of the positions are scientific and not the usual rank-and-file type roles. They will struggle to get the workforce they require. You cant just hire somebody and train the person to begin unravelling the genome of covid-positive sample. Neither can you just hire any youth and train them on how to treat a covid19 patient. A lot of the pioneer NCDC staff had at least an MPH with some sort of research and clinical experience. You cant pay anyone 70k to do that job. Italy or Spain or south africa will offer them something much better.

That probably explains why the government wants to make use of the retired workers as a starting point

gbam

mamatwiny:


Wonderful! And she did not make it news then?
90% of ppl that return from abroad to 'build ' Naija end up regretting their decisions. I feel pity for her. Chai! Degenerated to selling her kids cloths to fly back? While senators are sharing money and cars steady? She should not have kept shut. Tweet it! Use social media , use influencers! If the whole Naija is gagged, use foreign ones, copy WHO, world bank, Amnesty intl, just make noise!

Dr. Kenneth Madiebo a South African trained health practitioner made noise about it as he was also a victim https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-41147691

yommen:


Yes you are right but calling youths together to start training will take a long process cos there will be screening upon screening which will take time and will also mean gathering large crowd together. That alone is not safe at all. Calling retired health workers back is the best solution because they have the experience and knowledge of the process.

During school days,while other study,the health workers train.Thats why after a year or 2 of basic sciences, everybody will proceed to the teaching hospital where you start acquiring real life experience.
Next time you come across a doctor, ask him/her where he/she studied.
He she will answer you thus "I trained in UNN or Ife or UCH etc.After graduation as a doctor,nobody does any other training for you.Its straight to d job,albeit under supervision in d 1st one year.
If you visit d specialist outpatient department of any tertiary hospital,on paper,you are attended to by d consultant in charge but in real life you are attended to by his residents or even house officers.
The consultant merely goes over what his juniors have done and then makes appropriate adjustments in the management plan.
Caring for patients in a pandemic situation is very rigorous, is it the retired old men and women whose joints have been finished by arthritis that will be most appropriate?

LabDNA:


I'm sorry but I don't believe the bolded.

Testimonies from some of the NCDC staff to BBC

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You are underrating the stupidity of Nigerians.




You really underrate the stupidity of Nigerians
[/quote

Oga, why are you putting all Nigerians , in the same bag! Never make general comments about others as if every one in Nigeria is daft...Check am nah?

helinues:
Can't they recruit out of the rejected past applicants?

Why do we always like to think backward in this country?

oga why are you wailing more than us the original wailers.
Abeg better remain a zombie you are

DropsMic:


You are underrating the stupidity of Nigerians.




You really underrate the stupidity of Nigerians

u took d words out of my mouth

Get your hand sanitizer, nose cover, latex hand glove,if you are within osogbo
Contact this no 09060001839.
Prevention is better than cure

abnot:


Most of the positions are scientific and not the usual rank-and-file type roles. They will struggle to get the workforce they require. You cant just hire somebody and train the person to begin unravelling the genome of covid-positive sample. Neither can you just hire any youth and train them on how to treat a covid19 patient. A lot of the pioneer NCDC staff had at least an MPH with some sort of research and clinical experience. You cant pay anyone 70k to do that job. Italy or Spain or south africa will offer them something much better.

That probably explains why the government wants to make use of the retired workers as a starting point

I made the comment with the assumption that the volunteers will work under experienced NCDC staff. Not Carry out researchs and lab experiments themselves.

Very wrong move! Those retirees are aged people who are more prone to death from the virus!

Give out incentives to attract volunteers from the pool of unemployed graduates in the country!

I hope we'll learn some lessons from this scourge! Politicians should stop playing politics with issues of health! Stop employing health workers based on political connections but on merit!

lovinhubby2wife:
Wow Buhari should address the people o, you're the final truth and as our president you owe it to us.
As a Nigerian living in Nigeria, everyday I see Trump speak and address the Americans. Where's PMB??

How do you expect a lifeless human to address the nation

Sunofgod:
Return to work to die?

For Buhari?

Never!

But you guys should ask yourselves some questions na, how are they returning for Buhari? Have you guys been following the news about the virus in other countries at all? Do you think the virus will only start and end with politicians? Or is the version of the virus in Nigeria different from the ones in other countries? Do you want to wait for a few weeks before you will actually know what this virus is all about? Forget about Buhari, forget about all the evil politicians for now, if the virus decides to deal with us like in other countries, the elites will be treated better than we the masses. Focus on the containment and do not despise whatever measures taken to stop the spread. If the virus were for the elites alone we would have known from other countries because that's how it started in almost all other countries. Poor man no de travel abroad. Bros I hope Nigeria's case no follow like other countries, I see crowds wishing the disease should spread to all the politicians, I don't know why I hardly go with the crowd, kai I de think well well whenever any topic goes viral in this country o, make we know wetin we de wish for ooo.

These recent decisions were fast and decisive....

Sounds more like how Osinbajo makes decisions


Just saying

Tetrahedron:
Video of buhari tweeting or idonbelieveit .
They have collected the lifeless one’s phone and tweeting with it.
Only God knows the true state of matters in Aso-rock now

The Twitter account has never been on his phone. It's handled by his nephew, the p.a. (new media). I doubt he knows Twitter.

Why is this man so daft laidis.

Where is orji uzor kalu and Akpobio?

Normal used and dumped pple lol

ohhh

Cameroonglass:
Nice move, but I don tire to hear buhari said, buhari do,,,,let Buhari address his subjects on a live programme and let us know his stands, period.....

And u think addressing us will stop the spread of the disease. Many idiots Nigerian has been brainwashed by this nonsense presidential adress. I dnt knw how important it is compared to taking active measures. Stupid ppl wth no direction.

hmm, hope u know what it means by calling one stupid, I hope I forget what u said before 7pm